Music Reviews
Christmas Collection CD by the Carpenters
Christmas Collection by the Carpenters is another great Christmas album that is worth every purchase. I have CD’s of this Album which has a total of 31 Christmas songs that have touched my life in a hundred different ways so that I will never really get tired in …
Make It Happen (1992): Mariah Carey
Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: Make It Happen
Album: Emotions
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Marcus Nispel
“Make It Happen” is the third and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s second album titled “Emotions”, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Emotions” and “Can’t Let Go”. Marcus Nispel directs the music video …
MGMT (band)
I’ll start by saying there are relatively few contemporary artists, emerging in the past few years, that I’ve taken much interest in. By and large, I’m much more inclined to listen to older records and artists than newer ones-which may be odd, since I’m only 25 and the majority …
Annie’s Song by John Denver
Annie’s Song is one of John Denver’s famous love ballad’s but it is unique in that he does it in English and Spanish. It sounds so sweet that it can put you in a trans where you can forget your everyday worries or problems. It can mesmerize you with …
Live: Songs from the Blackmountain
I am reviewing the newest album by Live.The group that was out before with all of the great music they had.Like, I Alone,Iris,All over You, Lighting Crashes ,as well of a lot of good other song that was on there first album.They just came out with a …
Green Day Live 8.18 - HP Pavilion San Jose
Overview —“ With the release of their newest album, 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day set off on a tour across The United States and I was able to see them on August 18th, 2009 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. The opening band was Franz Ferdinand who …
“Black Sails In The Sunset” by AFI
“Black Sails In The Sunset” is one of the premier punk albums of the 90s. Put simply, it is a solid record with no filler, and provides an hour of some of the best and fullest punk of the 1990s. It is certainly AFI’s best record in my opinion. …
Selena - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
Selena - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD includes numerous songs sung by the upcoming talent, Selena, who was murdered just as she was really coming into fame and prominence. That was such a sad situation and seemingly so unfair. This story, Selena, named simply for the …
Del The Funky Homosapien Future Development CD
If you are not familiar with rapper Del The Funky Homosapien, he is THE best rapper on the planet!
With that being said, we review his release “Future Development”
Being cut from his label before this album had a chance to be released, this album is rare in the U.S. It …
H.I.M his infernal majesty
H.I.M (His Infernal Majesty)
This band is one that has been around for a while, and has a good number of albums under their belt. HIM stands for His Infernal Majesty. Sound kind of dark? Well they are, in a way. Their lyrics are, essnetially, love lyrics …
Mono M80 bass guitar case (Musical Instrument Accessory)
It’s every musician’s dream to go on the road and tour. But that also means he has to subject his beloved gear to the rigorous tortures of travel. It’s always a wise move to invest in a guitar case that could help prevent your gear from sustaining …
Metallica - Escape (Song)
Escape, one of the later tracks on Ride The Lightning, is a track that I’ll admit sounds forced and written for the radio in my opinion. Supposedly the story is that the record company wanted Metallica to write a track like Escape, due to …
3 Doors Down The Better Life
This is 3 doors down’s first major label album released in 2000 on Universal Records. You could call this album post grunge I guess, there are heavy parts but it’s not really a heavy album. Singles include Kryptonite Loser, and Be Like That. The album is a really interesting …
The Offspring Smash
Smash is the third album by The Offspring, released in 1994, produced by Thom Wilson, the album has sold over 16 million copies. The album is really good. The songs on the album are all really great, Nitro is one of the best, and the song Bad Habit, about …
God Bless America
God Bless America is a song that reminds me of many things. It has been performed by many different artist over the years. It reminds me that we should be faithful to our God first, our family second and then our country. It is a patriotic song that is …
Billy Gilman: Classic Christmas CD
Billy Gilman is all grown up now, but back in 2000, he was still the young boy with a cute smile and a voice that hadn’t changed yet. That’s when we got Billy Gilman: Classic Christmas CD, a group of 12 delightful holiday carols, including a duet with …
Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (Song)
What Is And What Should Never Be is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their second record, Led Zeppelin II. The song starts off with Plant singing briefly before any of the instruments come in and then you gradually hear the instruments enter into the song quite …
Rush In Rio, live Rush DVD
This was released in 2003, 29 songs in all. Right up front, the only problem I think this live video had, was that Rush, for some reason, felt the need to inlcude a loud mix of the audience singing along on the final audio mix of the DVD. …
Country Music Singer Faith Hill
Faith Hill, beautiful wife of Tim Mcgraw and loving mother is also an amazing singer with a beautiful voice. She is gifted in more ways that any person has a right to be and she has what appears to be a lifelong marriage to her husband who is also …
The band Deicide
The band Deicide is a metal band that are horrible. What they sing about I have no idea because there is not one song that I can understand by them, yes it is metal music but still there are a lot of bands out there where you can figure …
Dreamend-Sun in Aries
Dreamend is a band I discovered quite recently. I had listened to them some before but never really got impressed. Once I listened to Sun in Aries I was completely astonished with what I heard. You can say it’s divided into two separate parts. The first one combines tender …
CD Creed Weathered
Weathered is Creed’s third and final CD (they have since broken up). It includes rock songs such as Bullets, Freedom Fighter, Who’s Got my Back?, My Sacrifice, Stand Here with Me, and Hide. I enjoy all of the songs. Like other Creed CD’s, the music is …
No Line On The Horizon by U2
U2 for about five years break from the recording studio, now they appear more energetic and look even younger. After How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004), now Bono and his friends kicked back the music industry with their flagship hits No Line On The Horizon from the album …
Audioslave CD
This is one of the great supergroups. Chris Cornell, the lead singer of the grunge rock band Soundgarden, has teamed up with the band from Rage Against the Machine to great effect. Chris Cornell’s voice is alternately beautiful and fierce while the band complements the singing with …
Tina Turner (singer)
When I was much younger, one of my favourite singers was the woman Tina Turner. These days, I still appreciate her and her music, but my appreciation just is not as strong as it was back in the day.
There were several things I had admired about this performer …
311 band
Sometimes it’s good to just listen to music that stands apart from the regular. I find that escape when I listen to 311. Nick Hexum just has such a mellow voice and I love the how reggae sound they mix with the rock sound. Some of my favorite 311 …
Camp Rock 2 Soundtrack
I just finished watching the Disney Channel Original Movie: Camp Rock Two - The Final Jam. I also own the soundtrack and have listened to it many times. Unfortunately, I am not as much of a fan of the Camp Rock Two —“ The Final Jam soundtrack as I …
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have (Song)
Something I Can Never Have is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their debut record, Pretty Hate Machine. Something I Can Never Have opens up with a pretty eerie atmosphere, as with many of the songs that Nine Inch Nails has done, with Reznor playing multiple …
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
The Best Damn Thing? Does this album really live up to that ambitious title? Well, in a word, no. Not in my opinion. But that’s a bit unfair of me because of several things. I’m not an Avril fan to be honest, I can’t seem to get along with …
“F**kin’ A” by A.C. (Album, 2011)
The long-standing band A.C., whose offensive name is often abreviated as such, is notorious and infamous for their noise-filled “anti-music” with frontman Seth Putnam screaming extremely offensive lyrics. Their music is music to some, a headache to most. After a decade without any original releases, A.C. finally came through …
Screaming Trees - Dying Days (Song)
Dying Days is a song by The Screaming Trees. This song can be found on their album “Dust” and their greatest hits album. I find it kind of ironic that the Screaming Trees have a greatest hits album because they really seem to be an underrated band. Nevertheless I …
Kanye West - Jesus Is King arthouse album
Jesus Is King is Kanye West’s most arthouse album.
I’m surprised that “Jesus Is King” was Kanye’s lowest-rated album, especially considering that it sounds fresher than anything that came out in 2019 overall. Don’t think fresher = better, because this album is far from ideal. And there is a feeling …
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Over the years, Michael Jackson was become more well-known for his eccentricities than for his music.
However, if there was ever a time when his self-proclaimed ‘King of Pop’ status was justified, the Thriller era was it. Jackson’s 1982 album release ‘Thriller’ was one of the largest commercial successes …
The Tragically Hip - New Orleans is Sinking (song)
“New Orleans is Sinking” is the second single released by Canadian rock group The Tragically Hip. It appears off their 1989 debut album “Up to Here” as track number 3. It reached spot number 30 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and 1 on the Canadian Content Chart.
Quite …
Give Up- The Postal Service
The Postal Service is an almost legendary band in the indie rock scene. A collaborative project by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, it is an electronic indie rock band whose one and only album was released back in 2003. Give Up was …
Wolfmother
Wolfmother’s Self titled debut was released in late 2005 to mixed reviews, many critic’s attacked this album for it’s heavily borrowed riffs and song structure from many 70’s stlye metal bands, I have no problem with their borrowing bits and pieces, every good artists borrows. It took some …
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
This is an opportunity to obtain eternal black and heavy metal-influenced text Weirdo ass hook, although in a very truncated form. Initially, the temptation is frustrating to listen to: Every time the country and if something sounds promising, the discount on the next. After some time, if you accept …
Lip gloss by Lil Mamma
Lip gloss by Lil Mamma is a song about how this girl is uncool and then her lip gloss gets her into the cool club because it’s cool. This song is awesome in some ways because it’s all about lip gloss and I don’t know any song that is …
Tool’s Undertow Album
With so many bands including ones in the developing stage it is difficult to find good original music. Tool’s Undertow proves that originality does exist in the music business. With Adam’s unique guitar style combined with subtle and underlying lyrics this album has become one of my …
Album : Devildriver - Beast (2011)
I have had a bit of an interesting relationship with the music of DEVIL DRIVER since they first came onto the scene. See, i like Dez’s previous band Coal Chamber a little bit, but i never really embraced them as i wasn’t real big on the whole Nu-Metal phase …
Tool Undertow
Tool’s 1993 album Undertow is not only my favorite Tool album it may be my favorite album period. Intolerance is a heavy riffing straight up metal song, on Prison Sex they drop the low E to a B to get the extra crunch of the song, the lyrics like …
Call of the Wild (song) by Midge Ure
Call of the Wild is one of my all time favourite songs, even though I am not the world’s biggest fan of the singer in general. I do like a few of his other compositions, but this one really stands out for me. It is unfortunately rather hampered by …
Working Man by Rush
Many know Rush for their over the top progressive music with Geddy Lee on Bass with his crazy bass fills and high voice as well as his synth playing skills and of course Alex Lifeson with his awesome guitar tone and phrasing in many unusual scales as well as …
Roses For Momma by Red Sovine
The Song Roses For Momma by Red Sovine is a song about a little boy who’s momma has died and he wants to buy her flowers for her birthday. This song makes me think of how selfish kids are today. I haven’t seen my dad in fourteen years because …
J Dilla - The Shining
This is another album that was released after the death of J Dilla. This will be his final album, and will actually feature lyrics instead of just instrumentals. The CD guests include appearances by Common, J. Rocc, Guilty Simpson, Busta Rhymes, and many other underground and mainstream rappers. Dilla …
Metallica - The Four Horsemen (Song)
Overview —“ The Four Horsemen, the second track off of Metallica’s debut record Kill —˜Em All, is actually a song which is written from a much more complex standpoint than the opening track, Hit The Lights, at least in my opinion. I generally don’t associate Kill —˜Em All with …
Song Settlin’ sung by music group Sugarland
One of my all time favorite Sugarland songs is Settlin’. It is a song about a woman who is tired of settling for less when it comes to men. She decides she isn’t going to take it anymore. I listened to this song more than one time when …
Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love
Axis Bold As Love is Jimi’s hand crafted expression brought to life.The songs on this album represent a powerful kind of beauty that is unimaginable.Castles Made Of Sand paints a unique portrait of artistic measure.This album displays the beautiful landscape that existed inside Jimi’s heart and soul.It is purely …
CD American Idiot
The CD American Idiot by Green Day is a rock music album that insults the Bush administration in every song without ever saying his name. Lyrics such as “another protester has crossed the line to find the money’s on the other side”, “the company lost the war today”, …
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